Krahô
Language code
xra
Location
8°00'00"S 48°00'00"W
Family
Macro-Ge
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
Aspirated stop | kʰ | ||||
Plain stop | p | t | k | ||
Affricate | ts | ||||
Fricative | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Approximant | j | w | |||
Lateral | l |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i ĩ iː ĩː | ɯ ɯ̃ ɯː ɯ̃ː u ũ uː ũː | |
Mid-high | e eː | ɤ ɤː o oː | |
Mid-low | ɛ ɛ̃ ɛː ɛ̃ː | ʌ ʌ̃ ʌː ʌ̃ː ɔ ɔ̃ ɔː ɔ̃ː | |
Low | a ã aː ãː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Popjes, Jack and Jo Popjes. 1990. Canela-Krahô. In Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Popjes, Jack and Josephine Popjes. 2009. Phonemic Statement of Canela. Anápolis: Associação Internacional de Linguística.